A representative based architecture for handling mobility in connection oriented radio networks

This paper presents a connection management architecture for handling mobility in a radio network environment. A new concept of per roaming entity software agent, known as mobile representative, is used for insulating fired network entities from the effects of user mobility. It is shown that mobile representatives can, be used for distributing mobility management load within fixed backbone network depending on the instantaneous physical locations of mobile terminals. The paper describes a representative management architecture followed by a novel connection caching strategy which is used for achieving low-latency and scalable connection handovers.